[mythtv-users] Blank screen after 2 hours.

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Michael Rice <mikerice1969 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/5/08, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > System info:
>  > F8/Gnome/Myth 0.20.2
>  > Nvidia 169 drivers w/ GeForce 6200 AGP.
>  >
>  > I've got the screen saver disabled, and the screen blanking set to
>  > "never" in the power management applet. I'm also using Jarod's script
>  > for starting Myth so I'm setting xset -dmps and xset s off. After
>  > about two hours of doing anything without some sort of input from the
>  > remote the screen will blank. Previously pressing Return, which maps
>  > to 'Esc' in lirc would always wake it up but at some point it looks
>  > like an update changed this now it's 1 in 10. Currently I have to open
>  > the cabinet and press a keyboard or mouse button which is a pain.
>
>  I started having problems when I went to F8 as well.  What I ended up
>  doing was turning off all the KDE/Gnone screensaver/power saving
>  features and installing xscreensaver.  Now I can always wake up with
>  the remote whether it is running the screen saver or if it blanked the
>  monitor.
>
>  Unfortunately I enabled all the 'demos' that display our family photos
>  and now we seem to waste a lot of time watching the screen saver....
>  :)
>
>
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Thanks for all the suggestions. I added the following to the Server
Layout section of my xorg.conf as suggested by another user and
according to the wife it appears to have done the trick.

Section "ServerFlags"
  Option "BlankTime" "0"
  Option "StandbyTime" "0"
  Option "SuspendTime" "0"
  Option "OffTime" "0"
EndSection

Thanks,
Richard